Safety hanger for brake rods



Sept 1, 1925.

S. A. CRONE SAFETY HANGER FdR BRAKE RODS Filed July 9, 1924.

XNVENTOR ,'EW/fi (kaya- Patented Sept. 1, 1925.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT "O F-ICE.

'SETH A. GRONE, 0E EAsT ORANGE, NEw JEEsEY, ASSIGNOR TOEU'EEALO BRAKEBEAM COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF- NEW YORK.

sArETY HANGER, FOR BRAKE RODS.

Application filed July 9,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SETH A. CEONE, a citizen of the United States, and resident of East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Hangers for Brake Rods, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

The invention resides in a novel safety hanger adapted for use in supporting the bottom connection rod'of car brake mechanism in the event that either of the-pins positioning said rod become displaced.

Various forms of safety hangers for the connection rod of brake mechanisms are well known, and these have usually been in the form of hanging stirrups orloops riveted or bolted to the spring plank or other part of the truck and usually located at one side only of the spring plank.

In accordance with my invention I provide a safety hanger in theform of an integral rod which extends diagonally below the spring plank from one transverse side of said plank to the other transverse side thereof and is formed below the spring plank, with a depending open-top yoke or saddle through which the connection rod freely passes and which is approximately below the middle portion of said rod and hence in an advantageous position with reference to the purposes of the hanger. A

further feature of my invention is that the.

ends of the safety hanger rod are formed with loops or eyes to receive or be engaged with the carrier bars of four-point suspensions, whereby said hanger may be properly supported without the use of rivets or bolts. By reason of the diagonal disposition of the safety hanger, with its ends on diagonally opposite carrier bars and close to diagonally opposite portions of the sides of the spring plank, said hanger becomes very rigidly held in position and may, if necessary, be tightened on the parts its ends engage by being bent or forced downwardly at its middle portion.

Some car trucks do not possess carrier suspension bars for the brake beams but do have safety angle bars of known characterto prevent the brake-beams from falling to the track in case of their being released from the brake hangers, and in car trucks of this character my safety hanger at its looped ends will be supported by said angle bars in 1924. Serial No. 724,943.

the same manner that it is supported'on the carrier suspension bars when said bars are present. 5

The invention will be fully understood from the detailed description hereinafter presented, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a top View, partly broken away, of a car-truck having inside hung'trussed brake-beams and equipped with the safety hanger of my invention for the bottom connection rod of said beams;

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section through a portion of the same, taken on the dotted line 2-2 of Fig.1; r

Fig. 3 is a top view of a fragmentary portion of a car-truck equipped with the safety hanger of my invention in slightly modified form,andr 1" Fig. 1 is a. transverse section through a portion ofthe same, taken on the dotted line H of Fig. 8 than Fig.3. I p In F igs: 1 and 2 hanger as applied to a car truck having a spring plank 10, carrier suspension bars 16, 17 and safety guard bar members 19, 20 of the type shown and described in my pending application for LettersPatent Serial No. 717 ,693, filed June .41, 1924. The outer ends of the carrier bars 16, 17 are detachably secured to the outer ends of the safety guard members 19, 20 by hinge connectionsll, and the inner end portions of said bars 16, 17 are supported within the channels of brackets 21 riveted to the spring plank. When the hinge connections 11 are freed, the bars 16, 17 may be pulled endwise from the brackets 21, and said bars may be restored to position by being pushed. endwise into said brackets 21. The truss-rods 12 of the brake and being on a larger scale I illustrate my. safety] beams ride on the carrier bars 16, 17, as K usual. The brake-beams have the compression members 13, struts 14;, live lever 15, dead lever .22, dead lever guide, or brake.- lever stop, 23, and bottom connection rod 2 1 connected at one end with the lever 15 by confine this invention to carrier bars having 7 a convex upper surface.

The hanger of my inventionis numbered, as a whole, 27, andsaidrhanger is preferably without the use ofbolts ,orrivets; and the formed from "a single metal rod of about five eighths of an inch in diameter. The hanger 27 is formed at its ends with. eyes or loops 28,-29 -respebtively; and at aboutite middle portion saidhanger-is formed- With an open-top depending yoke or saddle30, through which the connection'i'od' 24 freely passes. The hanger 27 extends diagonally below the spring plank from one carrier bar 16 to the diagonally-oppositecarrier bar 17, the inner end 'portionofthe bar .16- being slipped through the eye 28 on the application' of said bar to ;position i and the inner endportion of 'the bar 17 being passed througlrtheeye 29 when 'said bar. is beingv applied to position. The eyes'28, 29 are bent to lie transverselyof thetruck and parallel with-the sides of thefs'pring plank -10, as shown inFig. 1;, and said eye 28 engages one side of thespring plank- 10 where the. eyeencompasses the carrierban16' While the eye 29 engages a diagonally opposite portion of the other side -of the spring plank where said eye 29 encompasses-the carrierbar 17 Thehanger 27 by; the means mlescribed becomes very securely-held and supported yoke or saddle 30 of the hanger is located belowv the spring-plank.

The (eyes,;28, 29 closely. engagesthe bars 16, 17 and the adjacent portionsof the. spring plank and I propose that there shall be no loosoness-in the hanger Whenthe same; is in position. Should the hangernottightly engage the partssupporting itQthe hanger may be bent or forced downwardly; at the yokeor -saddle 3Q to takev up any slack that may exist in any part of the hanger. The

hanger when in use is rigid and noiseless In Figs. 1 and 2 I haveshown the safety hanger 27 as applied. tog the .diagonallyoppositecarrierbars 16, 17 1 I The bars 16 17 perform the two-fold dutyfof preventing the ;brake-beams, in ,case ;ofaccident, from falling to t-he trackhandmf guidingordirecting. the beams to carryvthe brake-shoes properly against the .wheels; 'Many car butareprovided with angle iron safety. bars 31 to receive the brake-beams in-the event of accident. whereby the beams are prevented 7 from falling tothe track. My safety. hanger is applicable totheangle iron bars 31 as I illustrate Figs. '3 andl inwhich 32 may designate the spring plank and 33 the safety.

a hanger of my inyention,thi'shanger' being identical with :the. hanger 27 hereinbefore.

specifically! described, .eXceptthat'f-its end-1 eyes or end l0op'si34, 35 will be shaped to engag'eithe angleiron bars :31, said bars beside of the spring plank to the other of125 v ing slippedthrough .said eyes or loops or the eyes or loops being slidupon'said bars.

In I every instance my; safety hanger ex-' tends from one-side of the truck to the other below the bottom connection rod of the brake 'mechanismand is applied to position without the use of bolts or rivets. The safety hanger is formed of one integral rod and-* will: be manufactured with the-end eyes or loops and interm'edia'te' yoke or saddle at the factory for assembly with the other parts of the'truck wherever the same are to be installed.

I have illustrated the safety hanger as formed from a rod which is round in cross section but I do not, of course, confine-the invention to. the use of aroundro'dor to' a rod ofanyparticular shape in cross section, l

What. I clann as my .invention and de-" sire to secure by Letters-Patent is:

1. In a car truck having a spring plank.

and longitudinal bars at opposite sides "of thetruck extendingbelow the brake-beams,

a safety hangerforthe bottom connection rod of the brake rigging comprising a rod tudinal bars at points close-to the spring I i plank.

' 2. In a .car truck having-a spring plank" T and longitudinal bars atoppo'slte' sides of the truck extending below the brake-beams,"

a safety hanger for the bottom connection .7

rod of the brake-riggingr coniprising a rodhavin-ganopen-top yoke or saddlepfor said connectionrod and eyeslor loops on its ends initially shaped to closely transversely em brace-said opposite longitudinal lbars, said 1 eyes or loops being formedto the shapeof the'bars' andto allow said bar's-t0 be slipped into them on the assembly 'of the 'parts 'of the truck.

3. In a cartruck having aspring plank saddle for said connection rod and extending diagonally across the 'tru'ckbelow the i springplank from one of said bars at one *sidevof the springplankto the other of trucks do. not possess the carrier bar's'l6, 17,

said bars at the other side'of the spring"- plank, the ends of said hanger rod being? secured on said bars and said yoke or saddle being below the spring plank.

4. In a car truckhaving a spring plank and longitudinal bars at opposite sides'of 'said bars at the other side of thesp'ring plank, the ends of said hanger rod having J eyes" closelyreceiving' said bars and said I yoke orsaddle be ng below the spring plank.

5. In a car truck having a spring plank and longitudinal bars at opposite sides of the truck, a safety hanger for the bottom connection rod of the brake-rigging comprising a rod having an open-top yoke or saddle for said connection rod and extending diagonally across the truck below the spring plank from one of said bars at one side of the spring plank to the other of said bars at the other side of the spring plank, the ends of said hanger rod having eyes which lie parallel With the sides of the spring plank and receive said bars and said yoke or saddle being below said plank.

6. In a car truck having a spring plank and longitudinal carrier suspension bars for the brake-beams at opposite sides of the truck, a safety hanger for the bottom connection rod of the brake-rigging comprising a rod having an opentop yoke or saddle for said connection rod and extending diagonally across the truck below the spring plank from one of said bars at one side of the spring plank to the other of said bars at the other side of the spring plank, the ends of said hanger rod being secured on said bars and said yoke or saddle being below the spring plank.

7. In a car truck having a spring plank and longitudinal carrier suspension bars for the brake-beams at opposite sides of the truck, a safety hanger for the bottom connection rod of the brake-rigging comprising a rod having an open-top yoke or saddle for said connection rod and extending diagonally across the truck below the spring plank from one of said bars at one side of the spring plank to the other of said bars at the other side of the spring plank, the ends of said hanger rod having eyes closely receiving said bars and said yoke or saddle being below the spring plank.

8. In a car truck having a spring plank and longitudinal carrier suspension bars for the brake-beams at opposite sides of the truck, a safety hanger for the bottom connection rod of the brake-rigging comprising a rod having an open-top yoke or saddle for said connect-ion rod and extending diagonally across the truck below the spring plank from one of said bars at "one side of the spring plank to the other of said bars at the other side of the spring plank, the ends of said hanger rod having eyes which lie parallel with the sides of the spring plank and receive said bars and said yoke or saddle being below said plank.

Signed at New York city, inthe county of New York and State of New York, this 3rd day of July, A. D. 1924.

SETH A. CRONE. 

